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be discussed in a later article.) Secondly, through the avari- Among these 40.000 are girls rang- ciousness of their mothers (what ing from 11 to 16 years of age-a travesty or the real meaning of the ages at which, according to that word, mother). These Government Ordinance No. 5 of men-some of whom

Are

WO-

fairly

1938 (Section 5), It would consti- well off-would, in their greed. tute an act of misdemeanor to leave their daughters with mis- have carnal knowledge of the tresses of prostitutes on the un- girls, and which, according to derstanding that the takings are Section 28 of the same Ordinance, divided between them (the woman is punishable by imprisonment fot and the mistress), the mistress exceeding two years!

taking the lion's share; and

TRAFFICK METHODS How are these girls enticed into this professior.? Methods used by

Thirdly,

voluntary enrollment

by the girls themselves. These giris either rent their own Bats

TURKEY FULLY PREPARED

ANKARA, Jan. 23 (Reuter) -A warning that *say Power that wishes to strike rock against the immovable

of "Turkey" will find the "stes of Turkish arms" ready on the frontier, was given - on the Ankara radio last night,

Commenting on the ru- mours of troop movements in the Balkans, the announ eer sald that Turkey awaits fully prepared to defend her independence with the bulk of the Army concentrated In the Straits

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1941.

FOREIGN MAILS

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, 246E JANUARY, 1941, 9.30 A.M.

CHINESE NEW YEAR BOLIDAYS „

Office and

On Monday, the 27th January, the General Post. all Branch Post Offices will be entirely closed. There will be not collection from the pillar-boxes and no delivery by Postmen.

On Tuesday, the 28th January, the General Post Office and Kowloon Central Post Office will be open from 8 a.m. to noon, Sheungwan Branch Post Office will be open from 8 am to 10 a.m. and the other Branch Post Offices will be entirely closed.

There will be one collection from the pillar-boxes as on Sun days and one delivery of registered and ordinary correspondence at 11 am on Tuesday, 29th January.

There will also be one delivery of crdinary correspondence at 11 a.m. on 28th January from the Branch Post Offices at Stanley, Taipo and Un Long.

The Money Order Office will be entirely closed during the

the traffickers are varied but, in two to three girls sharing a fat. IMPORTANT STEP holdays. Hongkong, the most general ones flls" with

are

TOWARD SELF- SUFFICIENCY

Canada nas paken one

more

Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.

INWARD MAILS

From

Due

25th Jan.

28th Jan.

28th Jan.

(San

28th Jan.

38th Jan,

30th Jan.

31st Jan.

5th Feb.

8th Feb.

or arrange to share. their "pro-

the mistresses they work under. This article is not Firstly, the acceptance of girls

concerned With this type of as security against loans which

those connected the lenders, at the time of lend; prostitutes, as Ing. have no intention of having with social work could testify. repaid. To give an instance of they are the "impossibles." this: a poor refugee woman, with

There is, however, another class important step toward self-suff one or more nice looking daugh of prostitutes who will receive the clency in the production of war ters aged from 11 years to 18, sympathy of all parents-the se- weapons and supplies. It was re. Swatow

United-Kingdom and Straits. duced girl who, after having been cently, revealed that airplane en would be approached by a woman with the offer of a loan, on very betrayed by the man she loved, gines will be built in the Do Calcutta and Straits

was left to face the "decent" minton so that Canadian defence. S. A, Honolulu, Japan, and Shanghai lentent terms, repayable at bor-

world's" condemnation alone forces will not be so. dependent Francisco date 10th January) rower's own convenience. The

Shunned by her friends, cast out on supples from Britain and their Mall by "Pan-American Airways Direct Ser- borrower accepts it gratefully and

vice" San Francisco date, 22nd January signs the promissory note, thank by her family, and unable to face United States.

the scorn (real and imaginary) of Through this new plan Canada SandakaIL, ing, at the same time, her gods

those she knows, the poor girl will be able to ship complete | Calcutta and Straits... for sending a fairy godmother.

United Kingdom. Java and Manlis adopts the policy of "might as planes to the No time of repayment is stated in well be hanged for a sheep as for whereas at the present time U.S.A, Honolulu, Japan and Shangbal. (San Fran

At the expiry of two months, the lamb and begin her downward Canadian companies are building borrower would be approached by route, arriving, after a few years Air Force.

journey via the "kept woman" only the frames for the Royal These are shipped

OUTWARD MAILS the lender and asked for the re- of bitter experience, at a brothel. overseas and the engines are

Registered and Parcel Mail are closed 15 minutes earlier than installed in British plants. For the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are READILY FALL FREYS

Canada is pur advertised to close at or before 9 am registered and parcel mall Neither the mothers who might training ships offered two alternatives take the have been forced to allow their chasing some engines from both are closed at 8 pm. on the previous day. When malls are adver- tised to close after 5 pm, Registered and Parcet mails are closed risk of being arrested on the fak- daughters to lead a life of im- the United States and Britain.

under at 5 pm.

she note.

turn of the loan which, needless to say, the poor woman would be unable to do. She would then be

ed charge of obtaining money by morality, nor the girls who so

ever

Negotiations are.

to

A

cisco date 17th January)

For

FRIDAY

of & The bulk

Straits and Rangoon.

Air Mail by Air tó Rangoon to connect with the

"British Overseas Airways"

false pretences or give one of her readily fall prey to the gilb ton-way with an English Arm daughters as security. Ignorant gues of the traffickers, realise that cbtain patents and plans for of the local law, and reasoning on prostitution

British engine. Skilled crafts- is a one-way road the line that if she went to pri-leading direct to the grave, The men will be brought to Canada to son her daughters would starve, stopping places are,

in the ma- supervise the construction she reluctantly must comply with jority of cases, ill-treatment, bit-plant and the engines the alternative-hoping, and pray- terness of soul, and diseases. No of the factory workers will be Sandakan, Madang, Salariaua, Rabaul and Tulagi ing, that her little girl (who, in girl, under the existing law, where Canadian, all likelihood, had been with her prostitution is illegal, can

While normally it would re- through bombing raids in Canton hope to be redeemed as some of quire two years before the first or the country and had trekked her more fortunate sisters were in units could be produced on * with her, and their scanty belong- the days of licensed brothels mass production basis, it is esti ings, down to this sanctuary) will

the Help of A social worker, whose opinions mated that with henceforth lead the rosy life pic are usually taken as authoritative skilled British craftsmen and tured before her eyes by the de- told a Hongkong Dally Press re- their patents and plans. Canadian vil-incarnate in human gulse.

porter that the large influx of re- authorities hope to be pro- fugees is one of the contributory|duction within a few months. factors to the increase in the large number of prostitutes dur- ing the past years. Another im portant factor is overcrowding where young girls sleeping in bed- spaces in the corridors of crowded Bats are interfered with by male co-tenants (These girls, when abandoned, would fall easy prey to

IMPETUS TO INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION

An idea of the impetus given

to Canadian Industrial production the "brokers" for brothels).

Exchange Of Civilian Prisoners

in

LONDON, Jan. 23 (Reuter}

and children of

Manila and Parcels only for United-Kingdom.

SATURDAY

Date and Time

Fri. 24th

12.30 PM 1.30 PM

K.P.O.

Reg. 4.00 TH

Ord. 4.30 PM

G.P.Q.

Reg. 4,00 PM

Ord.

4 30 PM

K.P.O.

Parcels

6:00 PM

Ord.

5.30 PM

GP.O

Parcels 5.00 PM

Ord.

7.00 2M

Bat. 25th

G.P.O. & KP.O.

+.30 PM

Ord.

'.

5,00 PM 5.30 PM

Sun 26th

6.00 Fu

Air Mail by Sea to Singapore to connect with the Reg.

"British Overseas AirwaYS" Straits and Rangoon,

SUNDAY

Canton

TUESDAY

Tue. 28th G.P.O. & K.P.O.

by war orders was obtainable "Prostitution." in the opinion of "In view of the privations suffer from figures recently revealed by the speaker, "can never be stamp-ed by women

Minister ed out, but it should be regularis Palestinian families detained in shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, U. B. A., Canada, Cen- Reg. 26th 5.00 PM

Germany" the British govern- tral and South America via San Francisco.

Honourable C.D. Howe,

of Munifions and Supply. As of ed if the present high percentage

of VD. cases is to be combatted ment is endeavouring to expedite Rangoon and Calcutta.

a recent date, more than 34,000 war orders, with a total value of effectively,"

the

COYOT

REGULARISE PROSTITUTION

the exchange of such persons

with German women and children

WEDNESDAY

at present detained in Palestine. Manila, Batavia and Sourabaya.................................

Action has already been taken.

over $325,000,000 had been placed with 4.400 Canadian firms, Mr. The only way to regularise Howe stated. Further orders to prostitution is for Government to Mr. G. H. Hall, Under-Secretary Manila. Australia and New Zealand via Thursday an amount of some $20,000,000 reconsider, in the light of their for the Colonies, told the House Island are pending.

experience of prohibition, the

of Commons and it was hoped as Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa. These expenditures. which in question of the reopening of a result of the good offices of the immediate future will exceed licensed houses. In these houses the United States to effect, such

$345,000,000 mark chiefly the girls are, at least, under Gov-

exchange on

reciprocal purchases "to meet the ernment supervision -- medically basis. Negotiations are some. current needs of the defence and so far as treatment is con- what protracted but they forces, and range from puttees to cerned-and should 50 far to going on as speedily as possible. planes, from chemicals to war abolish the present farcical posi- ships, and from, X-ray machines tion of prohibiting licensed houses to automotive transport.

but having thousands of siy The figure of total purchases brothels.

include all

to being spent Government-owned plants

dces not

amount

01

the While Government discuss the build question with the Unofficial Mem-

Ord. 28th 8.30 AM

Noon

Wed, 29th.

8.30 AM G.P.O. & K.P.O.

2.45 PM 3.30 PM

Reg.

Ord..

3.30 PM

THURSDAY

Thu. 30th.

G.P.). & KP.O.

Par. 29th 5, ◊ PW

атн

Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa, and Reg. 30th 9.45 M

Parcels only for United Kingdom. Formosa

Ord.30th 10.30AM

3.20 PM

K.P.O.

Australian Soldiers "Bomb" Minister

Reg.

5.00 PM

Ord.

5,30 FM

Ar Mali for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U. 8. A., &

Europe via Pan American Airways and Trans- Berg. * Atlantic Services"

CL.F.O.

5.00 PM

Ord.

7.00 PM

FRIDAY

Fri, 31st

8.30 AM

K.P.O.

Reg. Ord.

10,30 AM

11.00 AM

G.P.O.

10.30 AM 11.00 AM

SYDNEY. Jan. 23 (Reuter)---Mr. to bers of the Council, and while ap- Percy Spender, the

Australian meet war needs, nor does it in pointing & Commission to investi

Army Minister, was "bombed" in clude purchases of material made sate the matter fully, the more his car by sky-larking soldiers here Jandakan through the Department of Muni-rigid application of Section 17 fs8. tions and Supply by the United 4) of Ordinance 5 of 1838 would yesterday.

The "bomb." which was made of Kingdom."

go somewhat towards partial at-

flour and chalk. tainment of Government's aim a mixture of

Spender's when the closing order was made.exploded" over Mr.

Air Mail by Sea to Singapore to gornect with the Reg. chauffeur.

The soldiers, who were in a "British Overseas Airways.”

bomb as traits and Calcutta.

4

OVER $445 MILLION If these purchases, now amount- Under the sub-section in ques- ing to over $100,000,000 were. Intion, it was enacted that "every

cluded in the total, then pur-female who is proved to have, for military truck with a shark tea chases by the Canadian Depart-the purpose of gain, any control, to the back, threw the ment would, run to over $445, direction, or influence over the Mr. Spender was on his way from 000.000. To be considered in con- movements of a prostitute in such Palm Beach to the city. junction with the

Mr. Spender took the "bombing" foregoing a manner as to show that she is figures are the expenditures and aiding, abetting, or compelling her in good part, saying, "The boys commitments for more than 100 prostitution with any person, or were having a good time. I don't new plants or plant extensions generally, shall be liable on sum intend to take any action." owned by, or being built for mary conviction to imprisonment the British and Canadian gov-for any term not exceeding three ernments. This

programme, of months"..

building involves a sum exceed-

ing $225,000,000,

The foregoing figures, however, openly exercised might be obtain year must be bought by the Bri- represent only in part the effected by the Police in Eennessy

tish Government.

TUESDAY

Farcels only for United-Kingdom. Manila, Macassar and Sourabaya.

Ord.

Parcels 11.00 AM

Letters Noon

Tan. Feb., 4th G.P.O. & K.P.O Pat. 3/2 5.00 PM "Ord. 4/2 8.30 AM

B.30 AM

K.P.Q.

Farcela

4.00 PM

OPENLY EXERCISED Proof of such control being

LONDON, Jan. 23 (Reuter) The Ministry of Food states that Bri- all oranges produced in the itish West Indies in the coming

Reg.

5,00 PM

Ord.

5.30 PM

Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, USA., Canada, Cen- ...G.P.O.

tral and South America and United Kingdom Parcels via San Francisco. (No Parcela for United-Reg. 'Kingdom).

Onl.. Note: All Malls for United-Kingdom, will be

forwarded with or without superscription

THURSDAY

4.00 PM

5.00 PM 7.00 PM

Thu. 6th

Parcels 10.30 AM Letters 11.30 AM

Bat, -8th

5.30 PM

"

of war on Canadian industry Road, Swatow Street, Amoy Street,

An elderly Chinese male, while and business Already the war spring Garden Lane, in the Wan-crossing the road, was knocked demand has had its impact on chal district, Wal Ching Street, down by a tramcar at Hennessy the power industry where expan Jordan Road, Reclamation Street Road, near Percival Street, yester- sion, amounting to tens of mil (from Yaumati to Mongkoktaul). day about, 12.30 p.m. He was sent straits and Calcutta. llons of dollars, is in progress. Laichikok Road, Namcheong St to hospital. Also, in addition to the plant Pakhol Street, to name but a few financing undertaken by the of the places where girls might be Government, priyate interests seen "street walking" accompanied have had to expand their plants by "amaha":

girls are forced to accept the cus- in order to meet both civil and These "amabs" carry out all the tomers' once the bargain military needs.

necessary negotiations and their struck!!

BATURDAY

Manila, Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa via Cape Town. ..................adise vonuvancemnoi

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